Unified document surface with trigger based notifications of action links

A system, comprising:

• a first computing device communicatively coupled to a second computing device;
• the first computing device comprising a document server structured to communicate a data value to the second computing device, the data value comprising at least a portion of a document;
• the second computing device comprising:
• a unified document surface application circuit structured to interpret a user location value, to interpret a first user input comprising a text flow entry, and to interpret a second user input comprising an in-line data access entry;
• a text flow processing circuit structured to position a text entry value on a unified document surface in response to the first user input and the user location value;
• an enhanced data processing circuit structured to create at least one data structure in response to the in-line data access entry, and further in response to the user location value, and to position the at least one data structure on the unified document surface, wherein the enhanced data processing circuit is further structured to synchronize the at least one data structure positioned on the unified document surface with an external data source, wherein changes entered through the in-line data access entry trigger automatic updates to both the unified document surface and the external data source;
• a user notification rules circuit structured to interpret a user notification profile value comprising a notification trigger value and a notification response value, wherein the notification response value comprises an action link definition;
• a user notification circuit to determine whether an event trigger has occurred in response to the notification trigger value and the data value;
• and
• a user interaction circuit structured to provide a notification to the user in response to the event trigger and the notification response value, wherein providing the notification to the user is performed by providing the action link to the user in response to the action link definition, and wherein the action link definition comprises at least one of:
• an automated message to be sent in response to a user selection of the action link or assigning a task to an entity in response to a user selection of the action link.